I spent much of the evening working on a writing project that I hope to tell you about one day. After playing with one four-line stanza for the better part of an hour, it was time to step away. My brain was too muddled to make any more progress on this day. Then I realized I hadn’t written anything for Poetry Friday! I searched my recent jottings and found the bare bones of this poem hiding in my notebook. Since this is what I’d been doing all evening, it seemed appropriate to polish it up a bit and share it today.
Find a word
write it down
play with its meaning
listen to its sound.
Pick another
do the same
string them together
make it a game.
Soon you will have
a new work of art
a story or poem
straight from your heart.
© Catherine Flynn, 2018
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Lovely words put together in the best possible way! A “. . . poem straight from your heart.” Thanks for sharing.
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Nicely done. This could be a fun poem to share with students at the beginning of a poetry writing lesson.
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Love it, says it all so simply, wish I could write poetry that easily!
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Beautiful poem! I LOVE it! Thank you for sharing!!!
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This would be fun to share with kids. I love the playful, building aspect of it. Thanks for sharing!
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I wish for a poetry book from all my enjoyed poet bloggers.
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:”Found the bare bones of this poem hiding in my notebook” — great lesson for student writers, using our notebooks to find kernels to develop. Love the poem1 Thanks for sharing this idea with us.
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Love this hip-hopping poem about writing a poem.
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Enjoyed your upbeat poem, Catherine. Sounds like you have a lot of teasures stashed in your notebook. 🙂
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I love poems about poems, glad you found this one for us, Catherine!
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Such a pertinent poem about writing. I am so happy for you that you are working on a writing project. Me, too! Woo-hoo. Is it a collection?
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Love the poem you threw together. It embarks the process of writing the poetry.
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I love this poem. It has a great rhythm. I would love to share this with my students when we start our poetry unit.
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Yep, that’s the way to do it! I know your writing project will get there too. I look forward to hearing about it when it does, Catherine.
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Playing with words is a great way to spend a day, even when you are fiddling and fiddling with them and cannot get them to come out quite right. I enjoyed the way you wrote a poem about writing a poem.
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“Live, Work, Create” — the perfect credo!
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Sometimes less fiddling is more?
I love this little ditty. “Make it a game!”
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love your poem. sometimes writing is more manageable for me when I just think of it as a game of stringing words together instead of the daunting project! Thanks for sharing
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Your poem DOES take the stress out of trying to create a new work, Catherine! It’s all one word at a time anyway, isn’t it? Thanks for sharing! (& good luck with that project…) :0)
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Nice…and just how it goes!
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